"A familiar ceiling."
Lin Heng woke from his muddled haze and saw an extremely familiar scene.
This was a room where he had lived for several years as a child after being brought to Cloud Sword Palace in his first simulation.
It was located beside Xiao Rang's residence in the Cloud Sword Palace Main Hall, with a study next door as well.
Later, many of the buildings within the Cloud Sword Palace Mountain Gate had been destroyed during the invasion by Heavenly Star Valley and Ice Frost City, so this room naturally no longer existed.
"Did Senior Brother Zhang Yuan and Master save me and bring me back to Cloud Sword Palace again?"
The thought flashed through Lin Heng's mind.
Then, he began trying to recall what exactly had happened over the recent period.
But the moment he started thinking, Lin Heng felt as if his head were splitting apart.
It was as though his brain had been thrown into a blender and violently shaken and spun, his consciousness instantly turning into a tangled mess.
At that moment, a large hand pressed down on Lin Heng's head.
A warm current poured in through the crown of his head and circulated throughout his body, easing the pain in his mind and restoring his consciousness to complete clarity.
As his awareness returned, Lin Heng used his Spiritual Sense to examine his current appearance.
His cheeks and body were now covered in savage sword scars.
Though the wounds had healed, there was scarcely a single patch of smooth, intact skin left on his body.
His face had been utterly ruined. No matter how fine his bone structure and features had once been, they could no longer support his looks. At best, he was beginning to resemble a human shape.
The condition inside his